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Then came [iconname]Hez[/iconname] .   He helped me by writing about 80% of this story.  Please, I beg you, go to his webpage, watch him, fave all his stuff, and THANK HIM BIG TIME for his help.  I owe him BIG for this.  With this story completed, keep an eye out, as this is the first chapter of the Neo SS250verse!!!", "writing": "\tChange is the eternal constant, and as time went on, the world of Mobius was no exception to this rule. The war between the humble Mobian people and the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik raged on, and like all wars, this brought changes both good and bad.\n\n\tAfter the marriage of Antoine D'Coolette to Bunnie Rabbot, things picked up in the war. Strikes were carried out against Robotnik's facilities world-wide, forcing him back. Unfortunately, a greater thread loomed in orbit as the alien Xorda attacked. They revealed the true history of Mobius, that it was once a world called \"Earth\" and that the people upon this old world had committed a great crime against the Xorda. In retaliation, the Xorda had reduced all life on the world back to the primordial ooze to re-evolve. They had returned to finish the job and wipe out all life.\n\n\tSonic the Hedgehog and Princess Sally Acorn, whom had grown much closer during this time, fought to save their world alongside every hero and villain of the planet. In the end, Sonic sacrificed himself to destroy the Xorda's greatest weapon and was transported across the galaxy, leaving his friends thinking he had died. It took the hero six weeks of relativistic space travel to return, to find that a full year had passed in his absence.\n\n\tUpon his return to a world he barely recognized, Sonic was not allowed to rest, as Robotnik unleashed his largest attack yet. Reunited with Sally, his one love, all seemed well as Sonic and his allies pushed back Robotnik once more. Unfortunately, Sally was in a state of emotional instability, having spent a year thinking her loved one had passed on. She had a public confrontation with Sonic, demanding he retire from being a Freedom Fighter.\n\n\tLuckily, cooler heads prevailed, and Sonic managed to convince her that he was fighting for their children, for the family that they would have at some point in the future. Sally calmed down, but Sonic and Sally agreed on a temporary and mutual separation to think about their positions and their relationship. Sally received therapy from Nicole, while Sonic had a short-lived and rather unhappy dalliance with Fiona Fox. Soon they were back together and closer than they had ever been.\n\n\tDuring Sonic's one-year absence, Bunnie and Antoine had divorced due to a sudden personality shift the coyote had undergone. It was soon revealed that Antoine was actually an imposter from an alternate Zone, named Patch. After defeating Patch and evicting him back to Anti-Mobius, Bunnie and Antoine were reunited and re-married.\n\n\tTime went on. Old villains grew stronger, and new villains made their debut. Robotnik's \"son,\" the computer virus ADAM, and his daughter \"Mecha\" both met their end as ADAM plotted to use every Chaos Emerald in the galaxy to kill Sonic and destroy Mobius. Sonic's evil counterpart from Anti-Mobius was transformed by the Master Emerald into a greater and more powerful threat calling himself Scourge the Hedgehog. Mammoth Mogul mind-controlled Tails, Mina Mongoose, and Mighty the Armadillo, threatening to kill them, only to use them to escape from custody... and set up in Casino Night, simply waiting for all the heroes of the day to die of old age. Knuckles, brainwashed by the evil Dr. Finitevus, was transformed into the new Enerjak, and set out to purify Mobius of all its technology, destroying any who opposed him. The sacrifice of Knuckles' father and the heroism of Sonic the Hedgehog restored him to his senses. \n\n\tThen came the turning point, with Robotnik's most devastating attack ever. In one fell swoop, Robotnik destroyed Knothole City and kidnapped the entire population. He beat Sonic half-to-death, and declared his victory over the peoples of Mobius.\n\n\t...He was wrong. Sonic and the remaining Freedom Fighters freed their people. Nicole, the artificial intelligence, used Robotnik's own technology against him and created a new home for the Mobians: New Mobotropolis. The utopian city was made of microscopic nanites, all inhabited by Nicole's consciousness. She BECAME the city. Using the nanites, Nicole was able to fashion herself a Mobian form, as real and living as that of any true Mobian.\n\n\tThe war turned badly for Robotnik. Suffering such a great defeat out of his greatest victory had destabilized his sanity. Using his new Dark Egg Legion, made up of Knuckles' old enemies, the Dark Legion; Robotnik sent them to the slaughter as the Freedom Fighters pushed their way deeper and deeper into Robotropolis. In the end, a final battle between Sonic and Robotnik ended with his total, complete defeat and collapse into gibbering insanity.\n\n\tSadly, the peace was short-lived as the technomancy-using Iron Queen and her consort, the massively-strong and invulnerable Iron King took over the Robotnik Empire, transforming it into the Iron Dominion. New Mobotropolis fell to their power as the Iron Queen reprogrammed Nicole into the obedient slave Iron Nicole. It was only due to Nicole's love for Sally, Sonic, and Rotor that she was able to throw off the spell that had left her controlled, and help fight off the Iron Queen.\n\n\tNow, despite the return of Robotnik and the rise of his Dark Egg Legion (willingly... and more often unwillingly controlled, cybernetically enhanced Mobians), New Mobotropolis was in a relative time of peace. Thanks to the ill-advised actions of Tails' parents, Rosemary and Amadeus Prower, the monarchy had become a constitutional monarchy, with the Council of Acorns replacing Elias Acorn's singular rule. The Freedom Fighters were stronger than ever, with dozens of new volunteers every day. New Mobotropolis was happy, and the revitalized population continued expanding the city, building it into the largest Mobian settlement on the planet.\n\n\tBut change came around once more, and the peace was soon shattered...\n\n*****\n\n\tNew Mobotropolis rang with the sounds of battle: screams, grunts, impacts, explosions and shouts. The evil sorcerer, Ixis Naugus, had attacked the village for reasons unknown. The battle raged desperately as the Freedom Fighters attempted to repel him from the borders of the Village. It was a plan that had been in place for a year, but no one had expected to ever use. \n\n\tAfter accruing a rogues gallery of magic-based enemies, the Freedom Fighters had realized that they could not defeat any one of them in a straight fight in an emergency. Using research, they had created a plan to use a Power Ring and a ritual learned from a spellbook left by the wizard Lazarr to forcibly \"evict\" a magical intruder from New Mobotropolis permanently.\n\n\tSally, Nicole, and Rotor now worked frantically to finish the ritual, while Sonic, Tails, Antoine, and Bunnie attacked Naugus to distract him and prevent him from doing any damage to the village.\n\n\t\"C'mon, Naugus!\" Sonic crowed, backflipping away from a green burst of energy, \"You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!\"\n\n\t\"Sonic, sugah, y'all are gettin' lazy. Ya need to brush up on yer smack talk, if y'all are usin' such old cliches,\" Bunnie remarked, firing her arm-cannon at Naugus, peppering him with energy bolts.\n\n\t\"I'm not at my best today! I haven't had time to write new material!\" Sonic grumbled in reply, delivering a solid kick to Naugus' stomach, doubling him over.\n\n\t\"I'LL SLAUGHTER YOU ALL!\" Naugus shouted, enraged. His threat washed over the Freedom Fighters with little to no reaction. They had heard too many death threats over the years to be bothered. Tails slipped in and performed a solid jab to Naugus' ribs before leaping back to get out of the way of the sorcerer's retaliation.\n\n\t\"Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll swallow our souls, whatever, we've heard it all before,\" Tails grunted, rolling aside as a searing burst of energy scorched the grass where he had been standing a moment before. In the days and months that had passed, Tails had been training in fighting techniques with both Sally and Sonic, and had improved immensely.\n\n\t\"It's ready! Get clear!!!\" Sally suddenly called, moving out into the open from her hiding place, holding a Power Ring in one hand and Lazarr's spellbook in the other. The combatant Freedom Fighters leapt away from Ixis Naugus as Sally aimed the Ring at him.\n\n\t\"Intruder upon our sacred soil, whose wrath doth make his blood boil...\" chanted Sally, reading out of the book.\n\n\t\"That spell... NO!!!\" Naugus growled, turning to face the Princess.\n\n\t\"Let thou from this place be vanished, and from the borders of New Mobotropolis forever BANISHED!\" Sally finished, crossing her fingers. The Freedom Fighters had a bad track record where magic was concerned and there was no guarantee the spell would even work. For a moment, it seemed her fears were justified as nothing happened.\n\n\tBut then a vortex of swirling energy opened behind Naugus, a roaring noise filled the air, and a powerful whipping wind kicked up. Naugus roared in rage, his feet skidding backward as he was drawn into the portal. He pointed at Sally, his green eyes blazing with hatred.\n\n\t\"I may go... But you will DIE!!!\" he shouted. A bolt of pure green energy erupted from his fingertip, flying through the air. The world seemed to slow as Sonic gasped Sally's name. He accelerated, running towards the Princess, but before he could get to her, a second figure leapt in the way. Bunnie Rabbot sprung forward, tackling Sally, twisting in midair to get between the Princess and the energy bolt. \n\n\tSonic had only experienced the sensation of being too slow a few times in his life. One of the luxuries of having super-speed meant that you always arrived early or at the nick of time. But even with his accelerated perception, the world around him moving so slowly that time seemed to be frozen, he knew there was no way he could make it in time. It did not stop him from trying, as he leapt forward, his powerful leg muscles propelling him into the air.\n\n\tIn his hyperaccelerated state, Sonic was able to see everything as it happened with perfect clarity. The bolt struck Bunnie first, impacting against her metallic shoulder. Bunnie's fur stood on end, her eyes going wide in shock. Her entire body stiffened as her mouth opened into a little \"o.\" Like a charge of electricity, the green energy crackled, spreading across her body, and down her hand, into Sally, cradled protectively against her chest. The momentum of Bunnie's tackle and the additional force of the bolt of magic knocked Sally off her feet, even as her mouth opened in a silent scream, her entire body beginning to convulse as if she were being shocked. The Power Ring flashed bright in her grip.\n\n\tThen Sonic slowed to normal speed and it was over. Sally and Bunnie hit the ground, still locked together. Antoine screamed his wife's name in terror, while Sonic did the same for Sally. He ran forward and knelt beside the girls, one his best friend, the other the love of his life. Neither moved.\n\n*****\n\n\tSally moaned as she slowly awakened. Her head pounded, her body ached, and she felt horrible from her bones to her fur. She slowly opened her large blue eyes to see Sonic standing over her, his eyes filled with worry and relief. She looked around slowly, recognizing Dr. Quack's clinic. She was in one of the hospital beds, an IV connected to her arm, slowly dripping saline solution.\n\n\t\"Sally! You're okay!\" he said, smiling, \"...ARE you okay?\"\n\n\t\"Nnnf.... H-Head hurts...\" Sally groaned, struggling to remember how to speak. Sonic gently took her hand and frowned.\n\n\t\"You've been unconscious for about two days... There was... an accident, and you were caught in it,\" Sonic explained, shaking his head. Sally pressed a hand against her forehead, as if trying to exert pressure to make her memory function properly.\n\n\t\"I... I remember... Naugus... The spell...\" Sally trailed off, her voice hoarse from disuse. She moaned softly and shook her head, as Sonic sat down in the seat beside her, reaching up to hold her hand.\n\n\t\"The spell worked. Naugus was evicted from New Mobotropolis. Spotters caught sight of him prowling around about ten miles out from here, but it's as if there's an invisible barrier that he can't pass through,\" Sonic informed her, smiling gently, \"He gave up after a few hours and vanished.\"\n\n\t\"G-Good... What about... BUNNIE?!\" Sally exclaimed suddenly, bolting upright. She immediately regretted the action, as intense pain lanced through her skull, making it throb powerfully. She groaned and clutched her temples, leaning forward as Sonic braced her.\n\n\t\"Whoa!!! Don't sit up like that! You've been through a huge shock,\" Sonic said, frowning as he brushed a lock of crimson hair out of her face.\n\n\t\"Where's Bunnie? Is she okay? She got in the way and...\" Sally trailed off at the expression on Sonic's face. He looked to the side, the smile fading away.\n\n\t\"...She's alive... But... Naugus's spell did something to her,\" said the hedgehog slowly, running a hand through his blue quills, \"...Nicole thinks that the spell was designed to convert her into crystal... Kinda like what he did to King Max a few years ago.\"\n\n\t\"Y-You mean... Bunnie is....\" Sally whimpered, her eyes tearing up.\n\n\t\"What? No! No, she's not a statue... But... Well, maybe you should see for yourself,\" Sonic said. He stepped to the side, letting Sally get a clear look at the bed next to her.\n\n\tBunnie Rabbot lay there, seemingly asleep. Her chest rose and fell slowly with her breath. Her hair, normally meticulously groomed and braided (Bunnie's only acknowledgement of her early career as the Knothole hairdresser), hung loose and down to her back in a halo. But what drew Sally's gaze and caused her to gasp was Bunnie's limbs.\n\n\tIt was as if someone had taken a look at Bunnie's robotic arm, and decided to cut a massive green gemstone into the same general shape, before attaching it to the rabbit herself. The stone arm was seamless, containing none of the panels, circuitry, or hydraulics that her former limb possessed. It melded seamlessly into her flesh, the same way her metallic arm did.\n\n\t\"Wh-What...?\" Sally asked, unable to find the words.\n\n\t\"Dr. Quack, Rotor, and Nicole have been working non-stop to figure out what happened. As far as they can tell, all of the metal in Bunnie's body has been transmuted into a kind of organic crystal... All of the cybernetics, the robotics, everything. Under the covers, her legs are like this too... as are all of the various bits and pieces of roboticized material inside her,\" Sonic explained, \"...Don't ask me what 'organic crystal' means.\"\n\n\tSally stared at her best friend for a minute before looking to Sonic and asking, \"I-Is she...?\"\n\n\t\"She's...\" Sonic trailed off for a moment, \"...She's comatose, Sal. She's completely unresponsive. She's breathing on her own, and the monitors are pickin' up all kinds of brain waves, but she won't wake up. Nicole thinks...\"\n\n\t\"I think I'm more qualified to tell Sally what I think than you are, Sonic,\" said a second voice, although not unkindly. Sally looked up to see the lynx smiling wide at her.\n\n\t\"I cannot tell you how happy I am to see you awake and unharmed, Sally...\" Nicole said, sounding as if she meant every word. She gently pulled Sally into an embrace, and surprised, Sally returned it.\n\n\t\"Thank you... But what about Bunnie?\" she asked. Nicole sighed heavily.\n\n\t\"Ironically, it may have been her robotic limbs that saved her life. The spell must have been designed to convert whatever substance it impacted into a carbon-based crystal through subatomic...\" Nicole trailed off and cleared her throat, one of the new affectations she had begun to use to seem more like a real, living Mobian, \"...I apologize, the exact science doesn't quite matter. Anyway, because her limbs are inorganic, while the rest of her body is organic, the spell would not affect both parts of her. It only converted her inorganic parts into crystal, leaving everything else safe.\"\n\n\t“Or as safe as she can be,” Sonic interjected, giving Sally and the lynx a tense smile, “As much as I hate to say it, it's just a waiting game now.”\n\n\tNicole nodded gently, watching as the Princess processed everything that she'd just found out. She reached out and softly held her hand.\n\n\t“One step at a time though, Sally,” she said, getting a nod of approval from Sonic, “You're awake at least, but you must rest and recover. Bunnie will awaken when she can.”\n\n\t“You said 'when'...” the squirrel mumbled, her eyes tearing up, “And you're right. Bunnie WILL wake up when her fight returns. When, not if, she can...”\n\n*****\n\n\tBunnie slowly opened her eyes, groaning as her head pounded. She sat up, trying to remember what had happened to give her such an incredible headache. It did not take her long to realize several strange things.\n\n\tFirst, her robotic left arm, which she had lifted to cradle her forehead, was no longer robotic. In fact, it was flesh and fur. She gasped in shock, bolting upright into a sitting position. The second thing she noticed was that her legs had been changed back to normal as well. She looked around in confusion, coming to her third realization, she was stark nude.\n\n\tShe sat in what appeared to be a blank void. There was no ground, per se, but she was sitting on it nonetheless. There was just a lack of everything, as if the world had ceased to exist, leaving a faint gray mist in its place. Bunnie climbed to her feet, blinking as she did not hear the familiar clank of metal or whir of hydraulics. There was no sound save for her breathing, until...\n\n\t\"Hmmm... How interesting...\" a deep, sibilant voice suddenly hissed from somewhere behind her. Bunnie gasped and whirled around, bringing her fists up as she slipped into a defensive fighting stance.\n\n\t Ixis Naugus slinked out of the mists, his crimson eyes glittering with malice. His black cloak flowed behind him, as if blown by wind despite the air being perfectly still. Bunnie gasped and backed away. She prided herself on being the second-best fighter in New Mobotropolis (the best being of course, Sonic), but Naugus was an enemy far outside her weight class, particularly without her robotic limbs.\n\n\t\"I thought I felt a faint tug on my ethereal form. I followed it... and here you are. I'm surprised to see you're still alive...\" Naugus purred, his voice deceptively friendly. Bunnie was not fooled.\n\n\t\"Wh-Where am Ah? What am Ah doin' here? S-Stay back!\" she growled, unable to stop from stammering in fear. She knew that without her limbs, she was powerless to stop Naugus from doing anything he wanted with her.\n\n\t\"We're in your mind, my dear, or more specifically, your dreams. It seems my spell to turn you into a crystal statue had an unintended effect of tying your essence to mine... Unintended, but not unwelcome...\" Naugus replied, \"You are now bound to me... Much as King Maximillion Acorn was once bound to me.\"\n\n\t\"No... No Ah'm not!\" Bunnie growled angrily, \"Ah don't know what ya're doin' here, but ya better get out now!!!\"\n\n\t\"Empty threats, my dear Bunnie Rabbot. I'M the one with the power here. Your mind is nothing but an open book, ripe for me to read... or rewrite... as I so choose,\" Naugus laughed, \"From here, I can learn everything you know about your friends... and make you into my own little slave.\"\n\n\t\"NO!\" Bunnie yelped, \"Yer lyin'!!!\"\n\n\t\"Am I?\" Naugus said lightly. He gestured with his large axe-hand, and the mists swirled and parted...\n\n*****\n\n\t“This is where you fell down the, eh... Rabbot hole,” Naugus chuckled, as Bunnie stared in awe.\n\n\tThey were back in New Mobotropolis, the last thing the rabbit remembered. But the world was frozen as if it was a computer simulation. The evil sorcerer was partway into the portal, his finger erupting in a stream of power. The crackling band ended with Bunnie in her mid-air interception to protect Sally. Sonic was dashing forward, his quills raked back by G-forces that under normal circumstances would be invisible to the naked eye. All around Freedom Fighters stared at the events, un-moving, soundless.\n\n\t“A combination of luck, your Princess' magical attempt, and the Power Ring have brought this to pass,” Naugus explained, catching Bunnie's attention as he wandered serenely around the scene, pausing to admire his past-self doppleganger, “She was foolish to try and master Lazarr's techniques.”\n\n\t“S-Sal did what she had t-to do...” Bunnie weakly countered, stepping forward and waving a hand in front of the frozen Tails' face before glaring across at the invader to her mind, “A-And Ah reckon she messed up whatever plans y'all had!”\n\n\tHe grinned. It was not a pleasant expression, and the rabbit felt her very bones chill as his eyes met her own gaze. Naugus walked towards her as the scene abruptly faded into darkness again.\n\n\t“Oh, I'm not saying the Princess didn't do a fine job of messing things up,” he commented in a tone barely above a calm hiss, stopping just short of looming over Bunnie, “But in truth, this isn't the first time she's interferred...”\n\n\tThe sorcerer seemed to blur out of existence, causing Bunnie to squint. When her vision re-focused she was looking at someone else entirely. Or more exactly, two sights.\n\n\t“W-What do they have to do with anythin'?” she snapped.\n\n\tAs fresh as the day she'd seen it, the rabbit was in the presence of her two dearest friends, Sonic and Sally, locked together in a tender kiss. Bunnie balled her fists up, glancing away from the frozen couple to try and locate her tormentor again.\n\n\t“Naugus! There ain't no point hidin' like the coward you are!” \n\n\tHis mocking chuckle echoed back at her in response.\n\n\t“I'm not hiding, my dear,” came his eventual reply, his voice seeming a mile away but equally as close as hair's-width, “This is your mind, and clearly you want to focus on them.”\n\n\tBunnie scowled, closing her eyes and trying to will herself awake... or for Naugus to vanish... or at the very least for the image of Sally and her love to disappear.\n\n\t“Oh! Your love, eh?” came the voice again, causing Bunnie to flinch. Had she just thought that?\n\n\t“NO! Stop twisting things!” she cried, opening her eyes and then gasping.\n\n\tThe couple had gone, the infinite darkness swirling around her again. But in their place stood a single figure. Not Naugus, not a memory.\n\n\t“Sonic?”\n\n\t“S'up Bunnie? Fancy meeting you here!” the hedgehog grinned before looking around at their surroundings, “Well I've gotta admit, I thought this place would be more interesting.”\n\n\tFinding her eyes welling up, Bunnie ran forward and embraced him. He returned the hug, holding her close as she wept openly against his shoulder.\n\n\t“Oh, mah sugah-hog!” she blubbed, her eyes too tearful to open, “Ah knew it was a trick! Ah knew you'd come to save me!”\n\n\t“Hey, comeon! As if there was any doubt!” Sonic replied warmly, his hands softly caressing her lower back as they continued hugging, “You mean ze world to me Bunnie. I'd vould never leave you.”\n\n\tBunnie frowned and opened her eyes. Pushing back gently, she found herself looking into the loving gaze of her husband instead of Sonic.\n\n\t“Antoine?”\n\n\t“Oui, mon petite lapin,” the coyote smiled, holding her hand and gently kissing it, “You vere expecting another, perhaps? I am, forever, your knight in the shining armour!”\n\n\tShaking her head to clear it, Bunnie took a breath.\n\n\t“Ah know, but... it's just...” she stuttered, “... Well, Ah don't know what Ah was expectin'.”\n\n\tAntoine's smile geared up for the briefest of moments before suddenly exchanging for anger. Bunnie hardly had time to react as she was pushed to one side, thumping down onto her back. Sitting up quickly, she stared in disbelief as her husband unsheathed his sword and swished it effortlessly into a defensive stance. His eyes stared into the gloom, not glancing down to her for a moment.\n\n\t“Ant? What the heck are y'all playin' at?!” Bunnie blurted, but found her question to be a moment too late as an unseen force powered against the coyote's blade and forced him backwards.\n\n\tShe could only look on as Antoine countered, his sword slicing down and throwing the invisible attacker to the ground with a crunch. There was the slightest of pauses before Bunnie recognised the temporarily dazed assailant.\n\n\t“Bunnie! Don't listen to him!” Sonic shouted, bounding up and clutching his wounded shoulder, “It's a trick! That's not the real Antoine...”\n\n\t“A-A trick?” the rabbit murmured, clutching her head as the hedgehog powered forward and neatly took his opponent's feet from under him.\n\n\t“Hah! I laugh at your lies, whoever you are!” Antoine snarled, picking himself up and preparing his sword again, “My sweetest Bunnie vould not fall for the tales you are telling!”\n\n\tHe jumped as Sonic charged again, his blade missing the hedgehog by the smallest of margins.\n\n\t“I am the real one, you fake hog of the hedge!” the coyote added, following up his dodge with a parry of jabs towards his opponent, “I am her husband, and the one she loves.”\n\n\tSonic sidestepped, whirling around the attacks easily and dashing to the other side of Bunnie's fallen figure.\n\n\t“No way Ant. You're too slow now, and too slow then!” he grinned, meeting Antoine's unblinking stare with one of his own, “You're the fake one who came in after she'd fallen in love with me! You just got upset after Sal rejected your advances and tried your luck with Bunnie.”\n\n\t“I cannot believe the lies that you are telling!” Antoine yelled back, launching himself forwards once again, “Unlike you, Bunnie cannot love another! And that is myself!”\n\n\tThe rabbit unfroze from her disbelief, cowering just in time as the pair leapt up, clashing just about her head. But instead of the sounds of metal against flesh, or speed against skill, there was nothing. She looked up, expecting to see the aftermath of the impact, and found the gloom looking back at her from all directions.\n\n\t“Hmm...” came Naugus' voice from the near-distance again, startling Bunnie and making her fall onto her back again, “That was disappointing. I was expecting more of a show.”\n\n\tThe sorcerer appeared a few metres away as the rabbit scrambled to her feet. He looked across at her with a sigh.\n\n\t“I know you're not the brightest bulb in the set, but I was hoping for more of a decision from you, Bunnie,” he added, shaking his head, “Such an indecisive mind is hardly a challenge for me after all.”\n\n\tTrembling with rage, the rabbit glared daggers across at Naugus.\n\n\t“That was just a test?” she spat, only her survival instinct keeping her from launching herself at him, “Y'all just wanted to play with me for your sick games?”\n\n\tThe grin again. But anger had warmed Bunnie's resolve and pushed her fear to one side.\n\n\t“MY sick games?” he chortled, his red gaze burning through her, “I'm not the one playing here... You are. And even I'm appalled by you.”\n\n\tHe began calmly circling the rabbit, walking as if he didn't have a care in the world.\n\n\t“Are you really so sick that you cannot decide whom is your love?” he continued, still staring at her as she silently fumed, “You marry one because you cannot have the other, hmm?”\n\n\t“T-That ain't so!” Bunnie replied, her fur frizzling up.\n\n\tNaugus stopped, looked thoughful for a second, and then carried on walking.\n\n\t“So even in your mind, the fact that you know that Sonic and the Princess are together doesn't stop you from calling him your love?”\n\n\t“Ah didn't! You made me think that!”\n\n\t“Even in your mind, in a battle between your so-called husband, who is supposed to be the love of your life, and Sonic...” the sorcerer quickly added, “You cannot even be truthful with which one would win? With which one you love?”\n\n\t“Stop it!” the rabbit snapped again, fists forcing her own claws into the palms of her hands with enough force to piece the skin.\n\n\t“Even in your mind, you cheat the Princess of her love?” Naugus questioned, stopping and facing the rabbit, his expression superior, “Even in your mind, you envision all this but cannot answer the simple question..?”\n\n\t“Ah'm warnin' you...”\n\n\t“Just one simple question..? Who do you love?”\n\n\t“Shut up!” Bunnie screamed, running at Naugus. She knew that she had no chance against him, but she couldn't take any more of his torture.\n\n\t“Hah!” the sorcerer scoffed, vanishing into the gloom just before the rabbit tackled him. She tumbled to the ground, sniffling as she stood again.\n\n\t“Ah... Ah want y'all OUT of mah mind...” she mumbled.\n\n\t“Oh Bunnie...” came Naugus' voice again, “If only you were stronger, you could at least try to get rid of me. But I'm here now, and forever. And soon you'll be following my orders.”\n\n\t“AH AM NOT YOUR PUPPET!” the rabbit bellowed, “AH NEVER WILL BE!”\n\n\t“We'll see about that,” the voice chuckled darkly, “Well you've revealed an interesting chink in what little armour your mind has. As you deny yourself the concept of 'love' in whatever delusion you live in, let me lower the tone to your more... primative instincts...”\n\n\tBunnie gasped as her length erected, pulsing and twitching against her will. She shook her head, feeling blood rush into her member, making it swell with every beat of her heart. The rabbit brushed a lock of hair out of her eyes and glared at Naugus.\n\n\t\"If y'all th-think makin' mah todger hard is gonna make me yer slave, then yer nuttier than my aunt's pecan pie,\" Bunnie growled defiantly.\n\n\t\"Oh, no, my sweet little girl, I'm just getting started. Why don't we delve deep into your subconscious, and see what other secret desires lurk there... I can make them all come true...\" Naugus purred. \n\n\tThe mists parted once more, revealing another image. It was of Bunnie again, arching her back in orgasmic pleasure as her shaft erupted over and over. She was crying out in delight for the one person she loved... but it was NOT Antoine. \n\n\t\"Oho! So, while you have devoted your life to the coyote, it seems you desire another... You lust for him...\" Naugus said, his voice a deep sibilant murmur, as if the devil himself was whispering into her ear, “I understand your confusion now. How your simple brain mixes the definition of love with the raw, primal instinct you feel towards Sonic.”\n\n\tBunnie shook her head, even as her phallus twitched at the sight.\n\n\t\"Ah th-think yer mistakin' your definitions, moron... Ah love Antoine... but...\" she trailed off.\n\n\t\"You lust for Sonic the Hedgehog...\" Naugus finished the sentence for her, \"...I can make him yours. Once I rule Mobius as its god, I can give you all of your heart's desires... You will rule instead of your friend, Princess Sally. You will be admired by millions as my avatar. Anything you want will be yours...\"\n\n\tIn this state, Bunnie was incapable of self-deception. Since Naugus could see into her deepest thoughts and desires, he could project them in front of her. She watched as images paraded before her of everything she had ever wanted becoming true. She was tempted. She longed to make it true...\n\n\t\"NO! Ah'm not yer plaything, Naugus!!! Ah'm a Freedom Fighter, an' until Mobius is free of all who'd destroy or conquer it, Ah'll BE a Freedom Fighter!!!\" she growled, closing her eyes and falling to her knees. She felt so weak... but she had to fight.\n\n\t\"Ah, Bunnie, my dear Bunnie... I'm afraid you're under the delusion that I'm giving you a choice. Haven't I made it clear that I control your mind already? You're already my slave, you just haven't realized it yet,\" Naugus said, sounding slightly disappointed.\n\n\tThe rabbit said nothing. What could she say? She could deny everything, again and again... but the relentless assault from the sorcerer would keep beating her down. Was it easier to just give up?\n\n\t“No! No more, Naugus!” she cried, tears beading in the corners of her eyes as she lifted her head to plead with the darkness, “Ah won't surrender to you EVER!”\n\n\tThe laugh that responded was dripping with pure, unbridaled malice. It seemed to swirl around her like the cruelest of winds, stinging her eyes with their own emotion. It went on for what seemed like an eternity until fading into the distance.\n\n\t“Still the fighter, little bun-bun...” Naugus cackled from afar and everywhere, “Well, if you won't admit your defeat to me...”\n\n\tWith that, Bunnie was thrown onto her back by an unseen force. Stunned, she hardly had the time to sit up before a figure detached itself from the gloom and knelt between her splayed legs, its breath heating the air just above where her member still pulsed.\n\n\t“Bunnie...”\n\n\tThat voice!\n\n\t“Sonic..!”\n\n\tGasping his name in response, Bunnie arched her back as the cobalt hedgehog took her length into his muzzle. She was weak... but...\n\n\t“Mmm, you need this...” Sonic murmured, drawing back for a moment and rolling a bead of her pre-ejaculate on his tongue before bobbing his head back down.\n\n\tThe rabbit whined and writhed as his tongue softly washed against her flesh. She had longed for this for so long, despite her loyalty to friends, family... marriage...\n\n\t“N-No... Sonic... Naugus... Please, no..!” Bunnie wheezed, tears freely running down each side of her face as she was serviced.\n\n\tThe hedgehog lifted clear, crawling up so that he was face-to-face with her. He carefully pushed the tears away, his eyes glittering with feelings.\n\n\t“You need this.” he repeated softly, leaning down and tenderly kissing her.\n\n\tBunnie openly wept into the kiss. She wanted to throw him to one side, to run into the arms of Antoine and never look back, to hold hands with Sally and devote their trust to one another...\n\n\t“You need this.” Sonic whispered, still looking deep into the rabbit's eyes.\n\n\t“Ah... Ah need... you.” Bunnie breathed, wrapping her arms around the hedgehog. He smiled and kissed her again, and this time she returned the kiss.\n\n\tClosing her eyes, Bunnie allowed herself to enjoy the lust... no, love... the love that she was feeling surge through her like never before. Thoughts of Naugus, of Sally, of Antoine, of everyone were mere memories. This was happening now. She slowly lifted her hips, feeling the probing thrusts of Sonic's shaft getting closer and closer to joining them as one. And then, it was done.\n\n\tShe threw her head back, crying out as the slender pillar surged into her body, hilting her in an instant. Sonic gasped, rocking forwards and sandwiching the rabbit's straining shaft between their bodies. They lay still for a moment, coming down from the sensations before their eyes met, their hearts beat as one, and they started making love.\n\n\tThe hedgehog drew back slowly, more carefully than Bunnie would have imagined before pressing onwards and into her trembling passage again. She met his thrusts with her hips each time, rocking them together and urging his tip into her deepest areas. Her cock wetted Sonic's body with each motion, his hands gently coasting against her sensitive ears.\n\n\t“Oh, Bunnie..!” he said softly, kissing her again as his member jetted a stream of pre-cum into her nethers. The rabbit moaned in response, their tongues meeting as she held him close.\n\n\tThe pair continued tenderly, pausing their kissing for only the time taken to take a breath. In truth Bunnie was marginally surprised that neither of them had built to their peaks, but the sensations of love-making with Sonic was too good to believe.\n\n\t“Mah sugah-hog..!” the rabbit gasped as their mouths separated, looking up into the depths of his green eyes. He looked down, still smiling as he thrusted into her.\n\n\tIt was then that Bunnie realized that her dearest partner was not the hedgehog she had known for many years. His eyes held something that she could not look away from, even if she wanted to. As her cunny rippled around him, she knew that something was different.\n\n\tSonic's pupils seemed to expand, drawing the rabbit's gaze deep into the green pools. Her hands against his back no longer felt the semi-rigid suggestion of spines, but rubbed over smooth, almost glass-like curves. The fuzzy pressure of his belly squashing her cock between them met the same sensation from his side. Even his throbbing penis deep inside her seemed to change size and shape, spreading her wider and drawing more of her juices out on each backstroke.\n\n\tBunnie drowsily blinked, smiling slightly as she met her own gaze looking down at her like a green-tinged mirror.\n\n\t“Ah need you...” she murmured.\n\n\t“Ah need you...” came the response from her reflection as she thrusted deep inside her organic doppleganger, yeilding a low moan of pleasure.\n\n\tThe once-hedgehog quickened her pace, the rabbit underneath basking in the sensation of making love to herself. She was overwelmed, feeling the unbelievable sensation of her own penis inside her own cunny, at the same time as her own cunny being around her own penis. She could reach down and caress her body whilst drinking in the seductive touches. She could kiss, feeling two tongues wrestling each other. Both of her shafts revelled in the dual-stimulation, squirting against each of her stomachs and inside her pulsing passage.\n\n\tDesperate for more, Bunnie continued. Faster and faster. Deeper and deeper. Wetter and wetter. She heaved into her own body, wrapping arms and legs around each of her entities, wrestling for more and more of the amazing sensation. Was Naugus being truthful? Could he really provide this feeling if she let him? Would it be so bad to feel like this forever?\n\n\tBunnie cried out in utter orgasmic pleasure as her cock began to convulse, firing thick, pearly blasts into the air and against their bodies. She could not fight any longer. Naugus's influence was too strong, and the pleasure was too great. She screamed in delight as her inner walls spasmed around her crystal-self's length, feeling her entire body convulsing with each ejaculation. Mirroring herself, the rabbit shuddered and tightened her grip as she felt her seed gushing into her insides, splattering around the thick shaft still pulsing away and running down to the ground.\n\n\t“It is done, my dear Bunnie.” the sorcerer said, appearing just on the edge of Bunnie's overwhelmed and failing vision, “Your mind has yielded to your own desire, and brought me deep within itself.”\n\n\t“Y-Yes...” she replied vaguely, trying to focus on Naugus as her body seemingly began to drift away from her senses. She wasn't sure which was her body... but it didn't matter.\n\n\t“You are correct, it does not matter,” Naugus agreed, reading Bunnie's thoughts without a problem as he knelt down beside her, “All that matters is my wishes.”\n\n\t“Yes...” the rabbit answered with more conviction.\n\n\t“You will obey me?”\n\n\t“Ah will obey you, master...” she said as her eyes closed.\n\n*****\n\n\t“... nie? C... you h... m...?”\n\n\tNoise. No, a voice.\n\n\t“Bunnie?”\n\n\tThat was her name. But who was the voice?\n\n\t“Can you hear me?”\n\n\tWas it him? No.\n\n\t“Doctor! I am seeing her move! Bunnie?!”\n\n\t“Uughhh...” the rabbit groaned softly, gingerly opening her eyelids. There were two figures, hazy, looking back at her.\n\n\t“Whoa, easy now Bunnie. Take your time.” one seemed to say.\n\n\t“She has no time to be taking her time! She simply must wake up!” the other argued.\n\n\t“Antoine, you're not helping!”\n\n\t“A... Ant... waann,” Bunnie mumbled, her vision clearing slightly. “Antoine...”\n\n\t“She knows I am here!” the coyote squealed, gently squeezing her hand, “I am here, mon amore”\n\n\t“Let's keep to the one language for now, eh?” came the other voice, which Bunnie soon recognised as Doctor Quack as he leaned in with a torch to shine in her pupils, “How are you feeling my dear?”\n\n\tPausing for a moment as she waited for her eyesight to return, Bunnie took as deep a breath as she could manage before gently exhaling.\n\n\t“Ah... Ah feel a bit like Ah got bucked clear off Dulcy's back and landed on mah head.”\n\n\tThe Doctor gave a little chuckle, nodding and scribbling down some notes on a chart.\n\n\t“You'd have probably been back with us sooner were that the case, Bunnie,” he said softly, as the rabbit managed to wozily smile at her husband, “You've been under for a few weeks.”\n\n\t“Weeks?” she repeated, slowly glancing between the pair as they observed her, “The last thing... Naugus... He tried to kill Sally. Is she alright?”\n\n\t“Oui, the Princess is recovered after you were saving her life” Antoine answered, kissing her hand, “She was having none of the after-effects and has visited you every day.”\n\n\tBunnie cast her eyes away and around the room. She was at home in her own bed. That made sense – to save her cluttering up the clinic.\n\n\t“W-What happened with the battle?” she asked, lifting her free arm to straighten an ear. She jolted as her eyes met with the sight revealed, “Mah stars... And what happened here?!”\n\n\tDoctor Quack and Antoine shared a look, their silence speaking volumes as the rabbit caught a glimpse of her own reflection in what would normally be a metal panel on her arm. Her arm was no longer robotic, glistening a vaguely familiar green. The gemstone seamlessly shifted as Bunnie flexed her hand in amazement.\n\n\t“This is... What is this? Doc?”\n\n\tThe duck took a breath, gently taking hold the foreign material and giving her hand a squeeze. Bunnie perked a tired eyebrow as she could feel the warmth of his fingers against hers.\n\n\t“This is a medical mystery,” he admitted almost apologetically, “Whatever Naugus tried to do to Princess Sally affected your robotic limbs instead. Nicole has been running tests with Rotor ever since you were brought in after the battle, and even they aren't sure. It seems to be a similar form of crystalized stone that they believe commonplace in Naugus' magic spells. Only, you appear to be in control of it, rather than it of you.”\n\n\t“Well, that's... kinda good I guess...” Bunnie commented, clearly distracted as she looked closer at her strange new arm. It wasn't transparent, but equally had a depth to it that drew the eye deeper and deeper into the material. She had seen this before... but where..?\n\n\t“Bunnie?” came Antoine's voice, breaking through the fascinating sight. He looked concerned as he continued holding her organic hand against his chest, “Oh, thanking goodness. I thought you had gone away again!”\n\n\t“You were unresponsive for a few minutes,” Doctor Quack explained, looking equally worried, “Are you sure you're okay? Nothing apart from the headaches?”\n\n\tShaking her head, the rabbit smiled before replying.\n\n\t“Nowt 'ceptin' the brain ache and shiny new body,” she said, “Ah was just... Y'know, Ah'm pretty tired. Maybe Ah should rest up before tryin' to get my head around all this.”\n\n\tThe duck nodded, tucking her arm back under the covers. Antoine did the same after placing another gentle kiss against her hand.\n\n\t“My precious Bunnie, I will run to tell the Princess that you have returned to us,” the coyote promised as his wife closed her eyes again, “Vhen you next awaken, ve will all be here for you.”\n\n\t“And I'll report back to Nicole and Rotor,” the doctor concluded, speaking to both patient and husband, “They can take heart knowing that although we don't know what happened, we haven't lost you to the uncertainty. But you shout if you need anything, Bunnie. Cream is in the next room doing some tidying, okay?”\n\n\t“Ah will obey...” Bunnie replied, drifting into slumber again for the briefest of moments before being awoken by the door nearly flying off its hinges...\n\n*****\n\n\t“Sonic! I'm trying to work here!” Sally cried, ducking as a small pillow flew over her head and bounced off her computer screen, “We've just got the latest reports in from the patrols and I need to analyze the data.”\n\n\tThe hedgehog in question grinned from the other side of the room, bounding lightly from foot to foot and brandishing another pillow in his hand. In his defence and in spite of the squirrel's current mood, she had to admit that this was the first time in weeks that Sonic was being intolerable.\n\n\t“Comeon Sal, you've been rooted in front of that computer for hours!” he countered playfully, “All your analysis is getting really anal-sis! You need to let your hair down.”\n\n\tSince being released from the clinic, Sally had found herself practically waited on by Sonic. The teasing jibes and inappropriate speed had been replaced by solid, dependable care. She wasn't sure if she entirely liked her new partner, but she wasn't going to turn it down when she was feeling pretty ropy. Her headaches had remained for a week or two after the incident, and despite the best efforts of Doctor Quack and his team were an occasional reaccurance. Thanks to Sonic being there to support her, emotionally and in some cases physically, she had been able to continue all but the most dangerous of her duties with ease. New Mobotropolis had nearly been repaired from Naugus' surprise attack, the general opinion being to rebuild again with the same physical means as the original city rather than using Nicole's nanite talents. The lynx hadn't minded, and had even mucked in with Rotor and friends during some of the larger builds. And of course, Sally had devoted many of the days since the attack at Bunnie's bedside, to support both her and Antoine in their time of need. \n\n\t“Mobius to Sal!” Sonic called, neatly scoring a direct hit on her shoulder with his pillow and breaking the Princess from her thoughts.\n\n\t“Sonic the Hedgehog!” she cried, grabbing both pillows and glowering across at him, “You can be a real jerk when you're bored.”\n\n\tHis grin remained, knowing that he had broken through the icier barrier of the squirrel and had reached her playful and informal interior.\n\n\t“Bored doesn't cover it! The hedgehog needs some action, and you need to chill out with a little fun,” he replied cheerily, “Just ten minutes, then I promise I won't bother you for at least another ten.”\n\n\tSally gave him a little grin, bringing both pillows up warily.\n\n\t“How about if I hit you in return, you make it twenty and run down to the market for whatever you're cooking this evening?” she challenged, watching as Sonic's smile faltered as his mind wrapped around the offer.\n\n\t“Hey, it's your turn to cook tonight Sal! You can't pull the 'sick' card any more,” he retorted.\n\n\t“Are you so worried that you're chickening out?” Sally teased, knowing which buttons to press to get the hedgehog to react, “Two pillows thrown by a girl?” She knew she had little-to-no chance of actually hitting him, but if he wanted to play...\n\n\tSonic's eyes narrowed, his smile snapping back into place in determination.\n\n\t“Okay then Sal. Two shots, and only one of them needs to count. And once that's done, YOU can figure out what YOU'RE cooking!”\n\n\t“Deal!” the Princess agreed, throwing her first pillow as she spoke.\n\n\tAs expected, Sonic neatly sidestepped despite having a split-second to react. He even had time to turn back and watch in bemusement as it lightly thumped into the door behind him.\n\n\t“Hah! Good try, Sal. But too slow by far to hit this hedgehog!” he laughed, eyes watching his partner carefully as she lined up the second shot, “Try again. Last chance!”\n\n\tSally regarded him playfully, tossing the pillow from hand-to-hand for a few seconds before throwing it. She could already see Sonic half-rolling his eyes as he began to dash out of the way again. She watched the pillow arch through the air between them, curling over as it began falling towards the spot that the hedgehog had just jumped from.\n\n\tThen the pillow abruptly changed direction, following Sally's gaze as she relocated her target. Sonic barely had time to look puzzled as the pillow smacked into his face with more force than either of them were expecting. As it exploded into a cloud of feathers and fabric, the squirrel covered her mouth in surprise.\n\n\t“Oh my gosh! Sonic!” she cried, running over to him, “I'm so sorry!”\n\n\t“Ppfffftthh!” the hedgehog replied, spitting out feathers and opening one eye to look at her, “Whoa... Nice throw. 'You been trying out for shot-putt in the summer games or something, Sal?”\n\n\tHelping to brush him down, the squirrel shook her head.\n\n\t“No... I just threw it, and I was so sure it would miss too,” she responded, looking over Sonic's face to make sure he was okay, “It was like it had a life of it's own and just... flew at you!”\n\n\tPicking the final feather from his quills, he looked between it and Sally slowly before shrugging.\n\n\t“Well, the life of this bird ended in a crash landing,” Sonic concluded with a smile, “And I guess I'm cooking tonight. But definitely not something I have to pluck!”\n\n\tSally laughed, hugging him tightly. He returned the embrace, kissing into her neck softly.\n\n\t“You know, Sal...” he murmured, holding her against him, “It won't take a sonic-second for me to run to market. We could pass the time some other way, eh? Sal?”\n\n\tThere was no response. Alarmed, Sonic withdrew, still holding the squirrel as her head lolled back limply, a tiny trickle of blood running down from her nose.\n\n*****\n\n\t“... Should be... Ah, I think she's waking up!”\n\n\t“Oohh... Doctor?” Sally grumbled, opening her eyes and seeing Doctor Quack, Sonic, Antoine and Cream looking back at her, their expressions melting into relief.\n\n\t“Easy, Princess,” the duck soothed, softly but insistently pushing her head back down onto the couch, “Sonic just ran you in here after you passed out. Do you remember anything?”\n\n\tThe squirrel frowned, lifting a hand which was gently grasped by Sonic.\n\n\t“I was just hugging Sonic, and I... I felt weird,” she answered slowly, looking around to find she was in Bunnie and Antoine's house with her friends, “I just, my brain felt cold.”\n\n\t“And this was after you hit Sonic with the pillow?” the doctor queried.\n\n\t“You hit Sonic with a pillow?” Antoine choked, his expression mixed between surprise and bemusement. The hedgehog scowled across at him as Sally nodded.\n\n\t“And the nose bleed?” asked the doctor, trying to get all of the facts.\n\n\t“Nose... bleed?” Sally repeated, bringing a hand to her face. That hand was lightly seized by Cream, the little doe's expression warm enough to melt the coldest of hearts.\n\n\t“I'm sorry, Princess,” she apologised sincerely, “I cleaned it up whilst Mister Sonic and Doctor Quack were talking.”\n\n\t“No, Cream. You did the right thing,” the duck smiled, ruffling the youngster's head-fur gently, “You'd make a good little nurse with care like that.”\n\n\t“I would?” the rabbit beamed up at him, “I'd like that! Mommy has a nurse's uniform I could wear and everything!”\n\n\tThere was an ackward silence as all but Cream exchanged glances. Fortunately that silence was broken by the creak of the bedroom door.\n\n\t“Sally-girl?” came a voice from behind the couch, attracting the attention of the squirrel's onlookers.\n\n\t“Bunnie?” queried Sonic in amazement.\n\n\t“Mon cherie!” piped up Antoine, running around to the source of the voice. Sally tried to lift her head to see, but was gently restrained by Doctor Quack.\n\n\t“Miss Bunnie!” Cream squealed, bouncing in place and squeezing Sally's hand before moving over to help.\n\n\tBunnie shuffled out to join them, wrapped in her bedsheets. Her husband and Cream carefully supported her as she crossed the room to kneel beside the squirrel.\n\n\t“Hey, Sally!” Bunnie smiled, kissing her friend on the forehead before settling back, “Y'all didn't have to come over here to see me. Y'know, if you weren't up to it.”\n\n\t“Bunnie..!” the squirrel sniffled, tears forming in her eyes as she gently held the rabbit's gemstone hand in hers, “I'm so happy to see you again!”\n\n\t“I'm less happy,” grunted Doctor Quack, putting on his sternest expression to meet Bunnie's questioning stare, “You should be in bed.”\n\n\t“Pishaw, Doc!” grinned the rabbit playfully, “Ah'm well enough to come and see mah friend, 'specially after her beau brought her in here so dramatic-like. And how y'all doin' shugah-hog?”\n\n\t“Heh... Stubtle was never my middle name,” Sonic blushed, leaning down to kiss Bunnie on the cheek, “I'm doing better for seeing you up and about.”\n\n\t“Always the charmer...” the rabbit smiled, giving him a wink before looking back down at Sally, “So Ah heard Ah gave y'all a bit of a scare?”\n\n\tShaking her head, the Princess squeezed Bunnie's hand.\n\n\t“I'd have been more scared if you hadn't saved my life. Thank you, Bunnie,” she said, her tears fading away, “Are you okay?”\n\n\tThe rabbit shrugged, leaning her head back against Antoine's shoulder as he knelt beside her.\n\n\t“Well, 'sides from bein' sore in places where Ah didn't know Ah had places from bein' laid out for so long...” she concluded, “And for whatever decorations Naugus' magic gave me, Ah think Ah'm on the quick trail to recovery.”\n\n\t“I think your arm and legs look lovely, Miss Bunnie.” Cream smiled, tenderly lifting a curl of hair away from the older rabbit's eyes. Bunnie smiled, lightly stroking the doe's cheek with her organic hand.\n\n\t“Aww, thanks lil' shug. Ah'll admit, they're a step up from the old ones. Maybe we can find out if they're all sparkle and no substance when Ah'm up to it, eh Doc?”\n\n\t“Maybe, when you're better,” Doctor Quack agreed, “But for now, I want both you and the Princess off your feet until morning. No arguments.”\n\n\tThe two patients nodded, exchanging another tender kiss before parting ways. Bunnie was escorted back to her bedroom by Antoine and Cream, and Sonic carefully cradled Sally as he carried her back to their house. That left the doctor alone in the room – he sighed and leafed through the reams of notes and findings he'd made during the recent conversations. Ringing the final comment, he left to return to the clinic and to update Nicole.\n\n\t'Both subjects need further observation,' the comment read, 'More research into their unusual experiences – Bunnie's limbs and Sally's brain. Something strange about their changes.'\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "\tChange is the eternal constant, and as time went on, the world of Mobius was no exception to this rule.  The war between the humble Mobian people and the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik raged on, and like all wars, this brought changes both good and bad.

\tAfter the marriage of Antoine D'Coolette to Bunnie Rabbot, things picked up in the war.  Strikes were carried out against Robotnik's facilities world-wide, forcing him back.  Unfortunately, a greater thread loomed in orbit as the alien Xorda attacked.  They revealed the true history of Mobius, that it was once a world called "Earth" and that the people upon this old world had committed a great crime against the Xorda.  In retaliation, the Xorda had reduced all life on the world back to the primordial ooze to re-evolve.    They had returned to finish the job and wipe out all life.

\tSonic the Hedgehog and Princess Sally Acorn, whom had grown much closer during this time, fought to save their world alongside every hero and villain of the planet.  In the end, Sonic sacrificed himself to destroy the Xorda's greatest weapon and was transported across the galaxy, leaving his friends thinking he had died.  It took the hero six weeks of relativistic space travel to return, to find that a full year had passed in his absence.

\tUpon his return to a world he barely recognized, Sonic was not allowed to rest, as Robotnik unleashed his largest attack yet.  Reunited with Sally, his one love, all seemed well as Sonic and his allies pushed back Robotnik once more.  Unfortunately, Sally was in a state of emotional instability, having spent a year thinking her loved one had passed on.  She had a public confrontation with Sonic, demanding he retire from being a Freedom Fighter.

\tLuckily, cooler heads prevailed, and Sonic managed to convince her that he was fighting for their children, for the family that they would have at some point in the future.  Sally calmed down, but Sonic and Sally agreed on a temporary and mutual separation to think about their positions and their relationship.  Sally received therapy from Nicole, while Sonic had a short-lived and rather unhappy dalliance with Fiona Fox.  Soon they were back together and closer than they had ever been.

\tDuring Sonic's one-year absence, Bunnie and Antoine had divorced due to a sudden personality shift the coyote had undergone.  It was soon revealed that Antoine was actually an imposter from an alternate Zone, named Patch.  After defeating Patch and evicting him back to Anti-Mobius, Bunnie and Antoine were reunited and re-married.

\tTime went on.   Old villains grew stronger, and new villains made their debut.  Robotnik's "son," the computer virus ADAM, and his daughter "Mecha" both met their end as ADAM plotted to use every Chaos Emerald in the galaxy to kill Sonic and destroy Mobius.   Sonic's evil counterpart from Anti-Mobius was transformed by the Master Emerald into a greater and more powerful threat calling himself Scourge the Hedgehog.   Mammoth Mogul mind-controlled Tails, Mina Mongoose, and Mighty the Armadillo, threatening to kill them, only to use them to escape from custody...  and set up in Casino Night, simply waiting for all the heroes of the day to die of old age.  Knuckles, brainwashed by the evil Dr. Finitevus, was transformed into the new Enerjak, and set out to purify Mobius of all its technology, destroying any who opposed him.  The sacrifice of Knuckles' father and the heroism of Sonic the Hedgehog restored him to his senses.

\tThen came the turning point, with Robotnik's most devastating attack ever.  In one fell swoop, Robotnik destroyed Knothole City and kidnapped the entire population.  He beat Sonic half-to-death, and declared his victory over the peoples of Mobius.

\t...He was wrong.  Sonic and the remaining Freedom Fighters freed their people.  Nicole, the artificial intelligence, used Robotnik's own technology against him and created a new home for the Mobians: New Mobotropolis.   The utopian city was made of microscopic nanites, all inhabited by Nicole's consciousness.  She BECAME the city.  Using the nanites, Nicole was able to fashion herself a Mobian form, as real and living as that of any true Mobian.

\tThe war turned badly for Robotnik.  Suffering such a great defeat out of his greatest victory had destabilized his sanity.  Using his new Dark Egg Legion, made up of Knuckles' old enemies, the Dark Legion; Robotnik sent them to the slaughter as the Freedom Fighters pushed their way deeper and deeper into Robotropolis.  In the end, a final battle between Sonic and Robotnik ended with his total, complete defeat and collapse into gibbering insanity.

\tSadly, the peace was short-lived as the technomancy-using Iron Queen and her consort, the massively-strong and invulnerable Iron King took over the Robotnik Empire, transforming it into the Iron Dominion.  New Mobotropolis fell to their power as the Iron Queen reprogrammed Nicole into the obedient slave Iron Nicole.  It was only due to Nicole's love for Sally, Sonic, and Rotor that she was able to throw off the spell that had left her controlled, and help fight off the Iron Queen.

\tNow, despite the return of Robotnik and the rise of his Dark Egg Legion (willingly... and more often unwillingly controlled, cybernetically enhanced Mobians), New Mobotropolis was in a relative time of peace.  Thanks to the ill-advised actions of Tails' parents, Rosemary and Amadeus Prower, the monarchy had become a constitutional monarchy, with the Council of Acorns replacing Elias Acorn's singular rule.  The Freedom Fighters were stronger than ever, with dozens of new volunteers every day.  New Mobotropolis was happy, and the revitalized population continued expanding the city, building it into the largest Mobian settlement on the planet.

\tBut change came around once more, and the peace was soon shattered...

*****

\tNew Mobotropolis rang with the sounds of battle: screams, grunts, impacts, explosions and shouts.  The evil sorcerer, Ixis Naugus, had attacked the village for reasons unknown.  The battle raged desperately as the Freedom Fighters attempted to repel him from the borders of the Village.  It was a plan that had been in place for a year, but no one had expected to ever use.

\tAfter accruing a rogues gallery of magic-based enemies, the Freedom Fighters had realized that they could not defeat any one of them in a straight fight in an emergency.  Using research, they had created a plan to use a Power Ring and a ritual learned from a spellbook left by the wizard Lazarr to forcibly "evict" a magical intruder from New Mobotropolis permanently.

\tSally, Nicole, and Rotor now worked frantically to finish the ritual, while Sonic, Tails, Antoine, and Bunnie attacked Naugus to distract him and prevent him from doing any damage to the village.

\t"C'mon, Naugus!" Sonic crowed, backflipping away from a green burst of energy, "You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!"

\t"Sonic, sugah, y'all are gettin' lazy.  Ya need to brush up on yer smack talk, if y'all are usin' such old cliches," Bunnie remarked, firing her arm-cannon at Naugus, peppering him with energy bolts.

\t"I'm not at my best today!  I haven't had time to write new material!" Sonic grumbled in reply, delivering a solid kick to Naugus' stomach, doubling him over.

\t"I'LL SLAUGHTER YOU ALL!" Naugus shouted, enraged.  His threat washed over the Freedom Fighters with little to no reaction.  They had heard too many death threats over the years to be bothered.  Tails slipped in and performed a solid jab to Naugus' ribs before leaping back to get out of the way of the sorcerer's retaliation.

\t"Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll swallow our souls, whatever, we've heard it all before," Tails grunted, rolling aside as a searing burst of energy scorched the grass where he had been standing a moment before.  In the days and months that had passed, Tails had been training in fighting techniques with both Sally and Sonic, and had improved immensely.

\t"It's ready!  Get clear!!!" Sally suddenly called, moving out into the open from her hiding place, holding a Power Ring in one hand and Lazarr's spellbook in the other.  The combatant Freedom Fighters leapt away from Ixis Naugus as Sally aimed the Ring at him.

\t"Intruder upon our sacred soil, whose wrath doth make his blood boil..." chanted Sally, reading out of the book.

\t"That spell...  NO!!!" Naugus growled, turning to face the Princess.

\t"Let thou from this place be vanished, and from the borders of New Mobotropolis forever BANISHED!" Sally finished, crossing her fingers.  The Freedom Fighters had a bad track record where magic was concerned and there was no guarantee the spell would even work.  For a moment, it seemed her fears were justified as nothing happened.

\tBut then a vortex of swirling energy opened behind Naugus, a roaring noise filled the air, and a powerful whipping wind kicked up.  Naugus roared in rage, his feet skidding backward as he was drawn into the portal.  He pointed at Sally, his green eyes blazing with hatred.

\t"I may go... But you will DIE!!!" he shouted.  A bolt of pure green energy erupted from his fingertip, flying through the air.  The world seemed to slow as Sonic gasped Sally's name.  He accelerated, running towards the Princess, but before he could get to her, a second figure leapt in the way.  Bunnie Rabbot sprung forward, tackling Sally, twisting in midair to get between the Princess and the energy bolt.

\tSonic had only experienced the sensation of being too slow a few times in his life.  One of the luxuries of having super-speed meant that you always arrived early or at the nick of time.  But even with his accelerated perception, the world around him moving so slowly that time seemed to be frozen, he knew there was no way he could make it in time.  It did not stop him from trying, as he leapt forward, his powerful leg muscles propelling him into the air.

\tIn his hyperaccelerated state, Sonic was able to see everything as it happened with perfect clarity.  The bolt struck Bunnie first, impacting against her metallic shoulder.  Bunnie's fur stood on end, her eyes going wide in shock.  Her entire body stiffened as her mouth opened into a little "o."  Like a charge of electricity, the green energy crackled, spreading across her body, and down her hand, into Sally, cradled protectively against her chest.  The momentum of Bunnie's tackle and the additional force of the bolt of magic knocked Sally off her feet, even as her mouth opened in a silent scream, her entire body beginning to convulse as if she were being shocked.  The Power Ring flashed bright in her grip.

\tThen Sonic slowed to normal speed and it was over.  Sally and Bunnie hit the ground, still locked together.  Antoine screamed his wife's name in terror, while Sonic did the same for Sally.  He ran forward and knelt beside the girls, one his best friend, the other the love of his life.  Neither moved.

*****

\tSally moaned as she slowly awakened.  Her head pounded, her body ached, and she felt horrible from her bones to her fur.  She slowly opened her large blue eyes to see Sonic standing over her, his eyes filled with worry and relief.  She looked around slowly, recognizing Dr. Quack's clinic.  She was in one of the hospital beds, an IV connected to her arm, slowly dripping saline solution.

\t"Sally!  You're okay!" he said, smiling, "...ARE you okay?"

\t"Nnnf....  H-Head hurts..." Sally groaned, struggling to remember how to speak.  Sonic gently took her hand and frowned.

\t"You've been unconscious for about two days...  There was...  an accident, and you were caught in it," Sonic explained, shaking his head.  Sally pressed a hand against her forehead, as if trying to exert pressure to make her memory function properly.

\t"I...  I remember... Naugus...  The spell..." Sally trailed off, her voice hoarse from disuse.  She moaned softly and shook her head, as Sonic sat down in the seat beside her, reaching up to hold her hand.

\t"The spell worked.  Naugus was evicted from New Mobotropolis.  Spotters caught sight of him prowling around about ten miles out from here, but it's as if there's an invisible barrier that he can't pass through," Sonic informed her, smiling gently, "He gave up after a few hours and vanished."

\t"G-Good...  What about...  BUNNIE?!" Sally exclaimed suddenly, bolting upright.  She immediately regretted the action, as intense pain lanced through her skull, making it throb powerfully.  She groaned and clutched her temples, leaning forward as Sonic braced her.

\t"Whoa!!!  Don't sit up like that!  You've been through a huge shock," Sonic said, frowning as he brushed a lock of crimson hair out of her face.

\t"Where's Bunnie?  Is she okay?  She got in the way and..." Sally trailed off at the expression on Sonic's face.  He looked to the side, the smile fading away.

\t"...She's alive...  But...  Naugus's spell did something to her," said the hedgehog slowly, running a hand through his blue quills, "...Nicole thinks that the spell was designed to convert her into crystal...  Kinda like what he did to King Max a few years ago."

\t"Y-You mean... Bunnie is...." Sally whimpered, her eyes tearing up.

\t"What? No!  No, she's not a statue...  But... Well, maybe you should see for yourself," Sonic said.  He stepped to the side, letting Sally get a clear look at the bed next to her.

\tBunnie Rabbot lay there, seemingly asleep.  Her chest rose and fell slowly with her breath.  Her hair, normally meticulously groomed and braided (Bunnie's only acknowledgement  of her early career as the Knothole hairdresser), hung loose and down to her back in a halo.  But what drew Sally's gaze and caused her to gasp was Bunnie's limbs.

\tIt was as if someone had taken a look at Bunnie's robotic arm, and decided to cut a massive green gemstone into the same general shape, before attaching it to the rabbit herself.  The stone arm was seamless, containing none of the panels, circuitry, or hydraulics that her former limb possessed.  It melded seamlessly into her flesh, the same way her metallic arm did.

\t"Wh-What...?" Sally asked, unable to find the words.

\t"Dr. Quack, Rotor, and Nicole have been working non-stop to figure out what happened.  As far as they can tell, all of the metal in Bunnie's body has been transmuted into a kind of organic crystal...  All of the cybernetics, the robotics, everything.  Under the covers, her legs are like this too... as are all of the various bits and pieces of roboticized material inside her," Sonic explained, "...Don't ask me what 'organic crystal' means."

\tSally stared at her best friend for a minute before looking to Sonic and asking, "I-Is she...?"

\t"She's..." Sonic trailed off for a moment, "...She's comatose, Sal.  She's completely unresponsive.  She's breathing on her own, and the monitors are pickin' up all kinds of brain waves, but she won't wake up.  Nicole thinks..."

\t"I think I'm more qualified to tell Sally what I think than you are, Sonic," said a second voice, although not unkindly.  Sally looked up to see the lynx smiling wide at her.

\t"I cannot tell you how happy I am to see you awake and unharmed, Sally..." Nicole said, sounding as if she meant every word.  She gently pulled Sally into an embrace, and surprised, Sally returned it.

\t"Thank you...  But what about Bunnie?" she asked.  Nicole sighed heavily.

\t"Ironically, it may have been her robotic limbs that saved her life.  The spell must have been designed to convert whatever substance it impacted into a carbon-based crystal through subatomic..." Nicole trailed off and cleared her throat, one of the new affectations she had begun to use to seem more like a real, living Mobian,  "...I apologize, the exact science doesn't quite matter.  Anyway, because her limbs are inorganic, while the rest of her body is organic, the spell would not affect both parts of her.  It only converted her inorganic parts into crystal, leaving everything else safe."

\t“Or as safe as she can be,” Sonic interjected, giving Sally and the lynx a tense smile, “As much as I hate to say it, it's just a waiting game now.”

\tNicole nodded gently, watching as the Princess processed everything that she'd just found out. She reached out and softly held her hand.

\t“One step at a time though, Sally,” she said, getting a nod of approval from Sonic, “You're awake at least, but you must rest and recover. Bunnie will awaken when she can.”

\t“You said 'when'...” the squirrel mumbled, her eyes tearing up, “And you're right. Bunnie WILL wake up when her fight returns. When, not if, she can...”

*****

\tBunnie slowly opened her eyes, groaning as her head pounded.  She sat up, trying to remember what had happened to give her such an incredible headache.  It did not take her long to realize several strange things.

\tFirst, her robotic left arm, which she had lifted to cradle her forehead, was no longer robotic.  In fact, it was flesh and fur.  She gasped in shock, bolting upright into a sitting position.  The second thing she noticed was that her legs had been changed back to normal as well.  She looked around in confusion, coming to her third realization, she was stark nude.

\tShe sat in what appeared to be a blank void.  There was no ground, per se, but she was sitting on it nonetheless.  There was just a lack of everything, as if the world had ceased to exist, leaving a faint gray mist in its place.  Bunnie climbed to her feet, blinking as she did not hear the familiar clank of metal or whir of hydraulics. There was no sound save for her breathing, until...

\t"Hmmm...  How interesting..." a deep, sibilant voice suddenly hissed from somewhere behind her.  Bunnie gasped and whirled around, bringing her fists up as she slipped into a defensive fighting stance.

\t Ixis Naugus slinked out of the mists, his crimson eyes glittering with malice.  His black cloak flowed behind him, as if blown by wind despite the air being perfectly still.  Bunnie gasped and backed away.  She prided herself on being the second-best fighter in New Mobotropolis (the best being of course, Sonic), but Naugus was an enemy far outside her weight class, particularly without her robotic limbs.

\t"I thought I felt a faint tug on my ethereal form.  I followed it... and here you are.  I'm surprised to see you're still alive..." Naugus purred, his voice deceptively friendly.  Bunnie was not fooled.

\t"Wh-Where am Ah?  What am Ah doin' here?  S-Stay back!" she growled, unable to stop from stammering in fear.  She knew that without her limbs, she was powerless to stop Naugus from doing anything he wanted with her.

\t"We're in your mind, my dear, or more specifically, your dreams.  It seems my spell to turn you into a crystal statue had an unintended effect of tying your essence to mine...  Unintended, but not unwelcome..." Naugus replied, "You are now bound to me...  Much as King Maximillion Acorn was once bound to me."

\t"No...  No Ah'm not!" Bunnie growled angrily, "Ah don't know what ya're doin' here, but ya better get out now!!!"

\t"Empty threats, my dear Bunnie Rabbot.  I'M the one with the power here.  Your mind is nothing but an open book, ripe for me to read... or rewrite... as I so choose," Naugus laughed, "From here, I can learn everything you know about your friends... and make you into my own little slave."

\t"NO!" Bunnie yelped, "Yer lyin'!!!"

\t"Am I?" Naugus said lightly.  He gestured with his large axe-hand, and the mists swirled and parted...

*****

\t“This is where you fell down the, eh... Rabbot hole,” Naugus chuckled, as Bunnie stared in awe.

\tThey were back in New Mobotropolis, the last thing the rabbit remembered. But the world was frozen as if it was a computer simulation. The evil sorcerer was partway into the portal, his finger erupting in a stream of power. The crackling band ended with Bunnie in her mid-air interception to protect Sally. Sonic was dashing forward, his quills raked back by G-forces that under normal circumstances would be invisible to the naked eye. All around Freedom Fighters stared at the events, un-moving, soundless.

\t“A combination of luck, your Princess' magical attempt, and the Power Ring have brought this to pass,” Naugus explained, catching Bunnie's attention as he wandered serenely around the scene, pausing to admire his past-self doppleganger, “She was foolish to try and master Lazarr's techniques.”

\t“S-Sal did what she had t-to do...” Bunnie weakly countered, stepping forward and waving a hand in front of the frozen Tails' face before glaring across at the invader to her mind, “A-And Ah reckon she messed up whatever plans y'all had!”

\tHe grinned. It was not a pleasant expression, and the rabbit felt her very bones chill as his eyes met her own gaze. Naugus walked towards her as the scene abruptly faded into darkness again.

\t“Oh, I'm not saying the Princess didn't do a fine job of messing things up,” he commented in a tone barely above a calm hiss, stopping just short of looming over Bunnie, “But in truth, this isn't the first time she's interferred...”

\tThe sorcerer seemed to blur out of existence, causing Bunnie to squint. When her vision re-focused she was looking at someone else entirely. Or more exactly, two sights.

\t“W-What do they have to do with anythin'?” she snapped.

\tAs fresh as the day she'd seen it, the rabbit was in the presence of her two dearest friends, Sonic and Sally, locked together in a tender kiss. Bunnie balled her fists up, glancing away from the frozen couple to try and locate her tormentor again.

\t“Naugus! There ain't no point hidin' like the coward you are!”

\tHis mocking chuckle echoed back at her in response.

\t“I'm not hiding, my dear,” came his eventual reply, his voice seeming a mile away but equally as close as hair's-width, “This is your mind, and clearly you want to focus on them.”

\tBunnie scowled, closing her eyes and trying to will herself awake... or for Naugus to vanish... or at the very least for the image of Sally and her love to disappear.

\t“Oh! Your love, eh?” came the voice again, causing Bunnie to flinch. Had she just thought that?

\t“NO! Stop twisting things!” she cried, opening her eyes and then gasping.

\tThe couple had gone, the infinite darkness swirling around her again. But in their place stood a single figure. Not Naugus, not a memory.

\t“Sonic?”

\t“S'up Bunnie? Fancy meeting you here!” the hedgehog grinned before looking around at their surroundings, “Well I've gotta admit, I thought this place would be more interesting.”

\tFinding her eyes welling up, Bunnie ran forward and embraced him. He returned the hug, holding her close as she wept openly against his shoulder.

\t“Oh, mah sugah-hog!” she blubbed, her eyes too tearful to open, “Ah knew it was a trick! Ah knew you'd come to save me!”

\t“Hey, comeon! As if there was any doubt!” Sonic replied warmly, his hands softly caressing her lower back as they continued hugging, “You mean ze world to me Bunnie. I'd vould never leave you.”

\tBunnie frowned and opened her eyes. Pushing back gently, she found herself looking into the loving gaze of her husband instead of Sonic.

\t“Antoine?”

\t“Oui, mon petite lapin,” the coyote smiled, holding her hand and gently kissing it, “You vere expecting another, perhaps? I am, forever, your knight in the shining armour!”

\tShaking her head to clear it, Bunnie took a breath.

\t“Ah know, but... it's just...” she stuttered, “... Well, Ah don't know what Ah was expectin'.”

\tAntoine's smile geared up for the briefest of moments before suddenly exchanging for anger. Bunnie hardly had time to react as she was pushed to one side, thumping down onto her back. Sitting up quickly, she stared in disbelief as her husband unsheathed his sword and swished it effortlessly into a defensive stance. His eyes stared into the gloom, not glancing down to her for a moment.

\t“Ant? What the heck are y'all playin' at?!” Bunnie blurted, but found her question to be a moment too late as an unseen force powered against the coyote's blade and forced him backwards.

\tShe could only look on as Antoine countered, his sword slicing down and throwing the invisible attacker to the ground with a crunch. There was the slightest of pauses before Bunnie recognised the temporarily dazed assailant.

\t“Bunnie! Don't listen to him!” Sonic shouted, bounding up and clutching his wounded shoulder, “It's a trick! That's not the real Antoine...”

\t“A-A trick?” the rabbit murmured, clutching her head as the hedgehog powered forward and neatly took his opponent's feet from under him.

\t“Hah! I laugh at your lies, whoever you are!” Antoine snarled, picking himself up and preparing his sword again, “My sweetest Bunnie vould not fall for the tales you are telling!”

\tHe jumped as Sonic charged again, his blade missing the hedgehog by the smallest of margins.

\t“I am the real one, you fake hog of the hedge!” the coyote added, following up his dodge with a parry of jabs towards his opponent, “I am her husband, and the one she loves.”

\tSonic sidestepped, whirling around the attacks easily and dashing to the other side of Bunnie's fallen figure.

\t“No way Ant. You're too slow now, and too slow then!” he grinned, meeting Antoine's unblinking stare with one of his own, “You're the fake one who came in after she'd fallen in love with me! You just got upset after Sal rejected your advances and tried your luck with Bunnie.”

\t“I cannot believe the lies that you are telling!” Antoine yelled back, launching himself forwards once again, “Unlike you, Bunnie cannot love another! And that is myself!”

\tThe rabbit unfroze from her disbelief, cowering just in time as the pair leapt up, clashing just about her head. But instead of the sounds of metal against flesh, or speed against skill, there was nothing. She looked up, expecting to see the aftermath of the impact, and found the gloom looking back at her from all directions.

\t“Hmm...” came Naugus' voice from the near-distance again, startling Bunnie and making her fall onto her back again, “That was disappointing. I was expecting more of a show.”

\tThe sorcerer appeared a few metres away as the rabbit scrambled to her feet. He looked across at her with a sigh.

\t“I know you're not the brightest bulb in the set, but I was hoping for more of a decision from you, Bunnie,” he added, shaking his head, “Such an indecisive mind is hardly a challenge for me after all.”

\tTrembling with rage, the rabbit glared daggers across at Naugus.

\t“That was just a test?” she spat, only her survival instinct keeping her from launching herself at him, “Y'all just wanted to play with me for your sick games?”

\tThe grin again. But anger had warmed Bunnie's resolve and pushed her fear to one side.

\t“MY sick games?” he chortled, his red gaze burning through her, “I'm not the one playing here... You are. And even I'm appalled by you.”

\tHe began calmly circling the rabbit, walking as if he didn't have a care in the world.

\t“Are you really so sick that you cannot decide whom is your love?” he continued, still staring at her as she silently fumed, “You marry one because you cannot have the other, hmm?”

\t“T-That ain't so!” Bunnie replied, her fur frizzling up.

\tNaugus stopped, looked thoughful for a second, and then carried on walking.

\t“So even in your mind, the fact that you know that Sonic and the Princess are together doesn't stop you from calling him your love?”

\t“Ah didn't! You made me think that!”

\t“Even in your mind, in a battle between your so-called husband, who is supposed to be the love of your life, and Sonic...” the sorcerer quickly added, “You cannot even be truthful with which one would win? With which one you love?”

\t“Stop it!” the rabbit snapped again, fists forcing her own claws into the palms of her hands with enough force to piece the skin.

\t“Even in your mind, you cheat the Princess of her love?” Naugus questioned, stopping and facing the rabbit, his expression superior, “Even in your mind, you envision all this but cannot answer the simple question..?”

\t“Ah'm warnin' you...”

\t“Just one simple question..? Who do you love?”

\t“Shut up!” Bunnie screamed, running at Naugus. She knew that she had no chance against him, but she couldn't take any more of his torture.

\t“Hah!” the sorcerer scoffed, vanishing into the gloom just before the rabbit tackled him. She tumbled to the ground, sniffling as she stood again.

\t“Ah... Ah want y'all OUT of mah mind...” she mumbled.

\t“Oh Bunnie...” came Naugus' voice again, “If only you were stronger, you could at least try to get rid of me. But I'm here now, and forever. And soon you'll be following my orders.”

\t“AH AM NOT YOUR PUPPET!” the rabbit bellowed, “AH NEVER WILL BE!”

\t“We'll see about that,” the voice chuckled darkly, “Well you've revealed an interesting chink in what little armour your mind has. As you deny yourself the concept of 'love' in whatever delusion you live in, let me lower the tone to your more... primative instincts...”

\tBunnie gasped as her length erected, pulsing and twitching against her will.  She shook her head, feeling blood rush into her member, making it swell with every beat of her heart.  The rabbit brushed a lock of hair out of her eyes and glared at Naugus.

\t"If y'all th-think makin' mah todger hard is gonna make me yer slave, then yer nuttier than my aunt's pecan pie," Bunnie growled defiantly.

\t"Oh, no, my sweet little girl, I'm just getting started.  Why don't we delve deep into your subconscious, and see what other secret desires lurk there...  I can make them all come true..." Naugus purred.

\tThe mists parted once more, revealing another image.  It was of Bunnie again, arching her back in orgasmic pleasure as her shaft erupted over and over.  She was crying out in delight for the one person she loved... but it was NOT Antoine.

\t"Oho!  So, while you have devoted your life to the coyote, it seems you desire another...  You lust for him..." Naugus said, his voice a deep sibilant murmur, as if the devil himself was whispering into her ear, “I understand your confusion now. How your simple brain mixes the definition of love with the raw, primal instinct you feel towards Sonic.”

\tBunnie shook her head, even as her phallus twitched at the sight.

\t"Ah th-think yer mistakin' your definitions, moron...  Ah love Antoine... but..." she trailed off.

\t"You lust for Sonic the Hedgehog..." Naugus finished the sentence for her, "...I can make him yours.  Once I rule Mobius as its god, I can give you all of your heart's desires...  You will rule instead of your friend, Princess Sally.  You will be admired by millions as my avatar.  Anything you want will be yours..."

\tIn this state, Bunnie was incapable of self-deception.  Since Naugus could see into her deepest thoughts and desires, he could project them in front of her.  She watched as images paraded before her of everything she had ever wanted becoming true.  She was tempted.  She longed to make it true...

\t"NO!  Ah'm not yer plaything, Naugus!!!  Ah'm a Freedom Fighter, an' until Mobius is free of all who'd destroy or conquer it, Ah'll BE a Freedom Fighter!!!" she growled, closing her eyes and falling to her knees. She felt so weak... but she had to fight.

\t"Ah, Bunnie, my dear Bunnie... I'm afraid you're under the delusion that I'm giving you a choice.  Haven't I made it clear that I control your mind already?  You're already my slave, you just haven't realized it yet," Naugus said, sounding slightly disappointed.

\tThe rabbit said nothing. What could she say? She could deny everything, again and again... but the relentless assault from the sorcerer would keep beating her down. Was it easier to just give up?

\t“No! No more, Naugus!” she cried, tears beading in the corners of her eyes as she lifted her head to plead with the darkness, “Ah won't surrender to you EVER!”

\tThe laugh that responded was dripping with pure, unbridaled malice. It seemed to swirl around her like the cruelest of winds, stinging her eyes with their own emotion. It went on for what seemed like an eternity until fading into the distance.

\t“Still the fighter, little bun-bun...” Naugus cackled from afar and everywhere, “Well, if you won't admit your defeat to me...”

\tWith that, Bunnie was thrown onto her back by an unseen force. Stunned, she hardly had the time to sit up before a figure detached itself from the gloom and knelt between her splayed legs, its breath heating the air just above where her member still pulsed.

\t“Bunnie...”

\tThat voice!

\t“Sonic..!”

\tGasping his name in response, Bunnie arched her back as the cobalt hedgehog took her length into his muzzle. She was weak... but...

\t“Mmm, you need this...” Sonic murmured, drawing back for a moment and rolling a bead of her pre-ejaculate on his tongue before bobbing his head back down.

\tThe rabbit whined and writhed as his tongue softly washed against her flesh. She had longed for this for so long, despite her loyalty to friends, family... marriage...

\t“N-No... Sonic... Naugus... Please, no..!” Bunnie wheezed, tears freely running down each side of her face as she was serviced.

\tThe hedgehog lifted clear, crawling up so that he was face-to-face with her. He carefully pushed the tears away, his eyes glittering with feelings.

\t“You need this.” he repeated softly, leaning down and tenderly kissing her.

\tBunnie openly wept into the kiss. She wanted to throw him to one side, to run into the arms of Antoine and never look back, to hold hands with Sally and devote their trust to one another...

\t“You need this.” Sonic whispered, still looking deep into the rabbit's eyes.

\t“Ah... Ah need... you.” Bunnie breathed, wrapping her arms around the hedgehog. He smiled and kissed her again, and this time she returned the kiss.

\tClosing her eyes, Bunnie allowed herself to enjoy the lust... no, love... the love that she was feeling surge through her like never before. Thoughts of Naugus, of Sally, of Antoine, of everyone were mere memories. This was happening now. She slowly lifted her hips, feeling the probing thrusts of Sonic's shaft getting closer and closer to joining them as one. And then, it was done.

\tShe threw her head back, crying out as the slender pillar surged into her body, hilting her in an instant. Sonic gasped, rocking forwards and sandwiching the rabbit's straining shaft between their bodies. They lay still for a moment, coming down from the sensations before their eyes met, their hearts beat as one, and they started making love.

\tThe hedgehog drew back slowly, more carefully than Bunnie would have imagined before pressing onwards and into her trembling passage again. She met his thrusts with her hips each time, rocking them together and urging his tip into her deepest areas. Her cock wetted Sonic's body with each motion, his hands gently coasting against her sensitive ears.

\t“Oh, Bunnie..!” he said softly, kissing her again as his member jetted a stream of pre-cum into her nethers. The rabbit moaned in response, their tongues meeting as she held him close.

\tThe pair continued tenderly, pausing their kissing for only the time taken to take a breath. In truth Bunnie was marginally surprised that neither of them had built to their peaks, but the sensations of love-making with Sonic was too good to believe.

\t“Mah sugah-hog..!” the rabbit gasped as their mouths separated, looking up into the depths of his green eyes. He looked down, still smiling as he thrusted into her.

\tIt was then that Bunnie realized that her dearest partner was not the hedgehog she had known for many years. His eyes held something that she could not look away from, even if she wanted to. As her cunny rippled around him, she knew that something was different.

\tSonic's pupils seemed to expand, drawing the rabbit's gaze deep into the green pools. Her hands against his back no longer felt the semi-rigid suggestion of spines, but rubbed over smooth, almost glass-like curves. The fuzzy pressure of his belly squashing her cock between them met the same sensation from his side. Even his throbbing penis deep inside her seemed to change size and shape, spreading her wider and drawing more of her juices out on each backstroke.

\tBunnie drowsily blinked, smiling slightly as she met her own gaze looking down at her like a green-tinged mirror.

\t“Ah need you...” she murmured.

\t“Ah need you...” came the response from her reflection as she thrusted deep inside her organic doppleganger, yeilding a low moan of pleasure.

\tThe once-hedgehog quickened her pace, the rabbit underneath basking in the sensation of making love to herself. She was overwelmed, feeling the unbelievable sensation of her own penis inside her own cunny, at the same time as her own cunny being around her own penis. She could reach down and caress her body whilst drinking in the seductive touches. She could kiss, feeling two tongues wrestling each other. Both of her shafts revelled in the dual-stimulation, squirting against each of her stomachs and inside her pulsing passage.

\tDesperate for more, Bunnie continued. Faster and faster. Deeper and deeper. Wetter and wetter. She heaved into her own body, wrapping arms and legs around each of her entities, wrestling for more and more of the amazing sensation. Was Naugus being truthful? Could he really provide this feeling if she let him? Would it be so bad to feel like this forever?

\tBunnie cried out in utter orgasmic pleasure as her cock began to convulse, firing thick, pearly blasts into the air and against their bodies.  She could not fight any longer.  Naugus's influence was too strong, and the pleasure was too great.  She screamed in delight as her inner walls spasmed around her crystal-self's length, feeling her entire body convulsing with each ejaculation. Mirroring herself, the rabbit shuddered and tightened her grip as she felt her seed gushing into her insides, splattering around the thick shaft still pulsing away and running down to the ground.

\t“It is done, my dear Bunnie.” the sorcerer said, appearing just on the edge of Bunnie's overwhelmed and failing vision, “Your mind has yielded to your own desire, and brought me deep within itself.”

\t“Y-Yes...” she replied vaguely, trying to focus on Naugus as her body seemingly began to drift away from her senses. She wasn't sure which was her body... but it didn't matter.

\t“You are correct, it does not matter,” Naugus agreed, reading Bunnie's thoughts without a problem as he knelt down beside her, “All that matters is my wishes.”

\t“Yes...” the rabbit answered with more conviction.

\t“You will obey me?”

\t“Ah will obey you, master...” she said as her eyes closed.

*****

\t“... nie? C... you h... m...?”

\tNoise. No, a voice.

\t“Bunnie?”

\tThat was her name. But who was the voice?

\t“Can you hear me?”

\tWas it him? No.

\t“Doctor! I am seeing her move! Bunnie?!”

\t“Uughhh...” the rabbit groaned softly, gingerly opening her eyelids. There were two figures, hazy, looking back at her.

\t“Whoa, easy now Bunnie. Take your time.” one seemed to say.

\t“She has no time to be taking her time! She simply must wake up!” the other argued.

\t“Antoine, you're not helping!”

\t“A... Ant... waann,” Bunnie mumbled, her vision clearing slightly. “Antoine...”

\t“She knows I am here!” the coyote squealed, gently squeezing her hand, “I am here, mon amore”

\t“Let's keep to the one language for now, eh?” came the other voice, which Bunnie soon recognised as Doctor Quack as he leaned in with a torch to shine in her pupils, “How are you feeling my dear?”

\tPausing for a moment as she waited for her eyesight to return, Bunnie took as deep a breath as she could manage before gently exhaling.

\t“Ah... Ah feel a bit like Ah got bucked clear off Dulcy's back and landed on mah head.”

\tThe Doctor gave a little chuckle, nodding and scribbling down some notes on a chart.

\t“You'd have probably been back with us sooner were that the case, Bunnie,” he said softly, as the rabbit managed to wozily smile at her husband, “You've been under for a few weeks.”

\t“Weeks?” she repeated, slowly glancing between the pair as they observed her, “The last thing... Naugus... He tried to kill Sally. Is she alright?”

\t“Oui, the Princess is recovered after you were saving her life” Antoine answered, kissing her hand, “She was having none of the after-effects and has visited you every day.”

\tBunnie cast her eyes away and around the room. She was at home in her own bed. That made sense – to save her cluttering up the clinic.

\t“W-What happened with the battle?” she asked, lifting her free arm to straighten an ear. She jolted as her eyes met with the sight revealed, “Mah stars... And what happened here?!”

\tDoctor Quack and Antoine shared a look, their silence speaking volumes as the rabbit caught a glimpse of her own reflection in what would normally be a metal panel on her arm. Her arm was no longer robotic, glistening a vaguely familiar green. The gemstone seamlessly shifted as Bunnie flexed her hand in amazement.

\t“This is... What is this? Doc?”

\tThe duck took a breath, gently taking hold the foreign material and giving her hand a squeeze. Bunnie perked a tired eyebrow as she could feel the warmth of his fingers against hers.

\t“This is a medical mystery,” he admitted almost apologetically, “Whatever Naugus tried to do to Princess Sally affected your robotic limbs instead. Nicole has been running tests with Rotor ever since you were brought in after the battle, and even they aren't sure. It seems to be a similar form of crystalized stone that they believe commonplace in Naugus' magic spells. Only, you appear to be in control of it, rather than it of you.”

\t“Well, that's... kinda good I guess...” Bunnie commented, clearly distracted as she looked closer at her strange new arm. It wasn't transparent, but equally had a depth to it that drew the eye deeper and deeper into the material. She had seen this before... but where..?

\t“Bunnie?” came Antoine's voice, breaking through the fascinating sight. He looked concerned as he continued holding her organic hand against his chest, “Oh, thanking goodness. I thought you had gone away again!”

\t“You were unresponsive for a few minutes,” Doctor Quack explained, looking equally worried, “Are you sure you're okay? Nothing apart from the headaches?”

\tShaking her head, the rabbit smiled before replying.

\t“Nowt 'ceptin' the brain ache and shiny new body,” she said, “Ah was just... Y'know, Ah'm pretty tired. Maybe Ah should rest up before tryin' to get my head around all this.”

\tThe duck nodded, tucking her arm back under the covers. Antoine did the same after placing another gentle kiss against her hand.

\t“My precious Bunnie, I will run to tell the Princess that you have returned to us,” the coyote promised as his wife closed her eyes again, “Vhen you next awaken, ve will all be here for you.”

\t“And I'll report back to Nicole and Rotor,” the doctor concluded, speaking to both patient and husband, “They can take heart knowing that although we don't know what happened, we haven't lost you to the uncertainty. But you shout if you need anything, Bunnie. Cream is in the next room doing some tidying, okay?”

\t“Ah will obey...” Bunnie replied, drifting into slumber again for the briefest of moments before being awoken by the door nearly flying off its hinges...

*****

\t“Sonic! I'm trying to work here!” Sally cried, ducking as a small pillow flew over her head and bounced off her computer screen, “We've just got the latest reports in from the patrols and I need to analyze the data.”

\tThe hedgehog in question grinned from the other side of the room, bounding lightly from foot to foot and brandishing another pillow in his hand. In his defence and in spite of the squirrel's current mood, she had to admit that this was the first time in weeks that Sonic was being intolerable.

\t“Comeon Sal, you've been rooted in front of that computer for hours!” he countered playfully, “All your analysis is getting really anal-sis! You need to let your hair down.”

\tSince being released from the clinic, Sally had found herself practically waited on by Sonic. The teasing jibes and inappropriate speed had been replaced by solid, dependable care. She wasn't sure if she entirely liked her new partner, but she wasn't going to turn it down when she was feeling pretty ropy. Her headaches had remained for a week or two after the incident, and despite the best efforts of Doctor Quack and his team were an occasional reaccurance. Thanks to Sonic being there to support her, emotionally and in some cases physically, she had been able to continue all but the most dangerous of her duties with ease. New Mobotropolis had nearly been repaired from Naugus' surprise attack, the general opinion being to rebuild again with the same physical means as the original city rather than using Nicole's nanite talents. The lynx hadn't minded, and had even mucked in with Rotor and friends during some of the larger builds. And of course, Sally had devoted many of the days since the attack at Bunnie's bedside, to support both her and Antoine in their time of need.

\t“Mobius to Sal!” Sonic called, neatly scoring a direct hit on her shoulder with his pillow and breaking the Princess from her thoughts.

\t“Sonic the Hedgehog!” she cried, grabbing both pillows and glowering across at him, “You can be a real jerk when you're bored.”

\tHis grin remained, knowing that he had broken through the icier barrier of the squirrel and had reached her playful and informal interior.

\t“Bored doesn't cover it! The hedgehog needs some action, and you need to chill out with a little fun,” he replied cheerily, “Just ten minutes, then I promise I won't bother you for at least another ten.”

\tSally gave him a little grin, bringing both pillows up warily.

\t“How about if I hit you in return, you make it twenty and run down to the market for whatever you're cooking this evening?” she challenged, watching as Sonic's smile faltered as his mind wrapped around the offer.

\t“Hey, it's your turn to cook tonight Sal! You can't pull the 'sick' card any more,” he retorted.

\t“Are you so worried that you're chickening out?” Sally teased, knowing which buttons to press to get the hedgehog to react, “Two pillows thrown by a girl?” She knew she had little-to-no chance of actually hitting him, but if he wanted to play...

\tSonic's eyes narrowed, his smile snapping back into place in determination.

\t“Okay then Sal. Two shots, and only one of them needs to count. And once that's done, YOU can figure out what YOU'RE cooking!”

\t“Deal!” the Princess agreed, throwing her first pillow as she spoke.

\tAs expected, Sonic neatly sidestepped despite having a split-second to react. He even had time to turn back and watch in bemusement as it lightly thumped into the door behind him.

\t“Hah! Good try, Sal. But too slow by far to hit this hedgehog!” he laughed, eyes watching his partner carefully as she lined up the second shot, “Try again. Last chance!”

\tSally regarded him playfully, tossing the pillow from hand-to-hand for a few seconds before throwing it. She could already see Sonic half-rolling his eyes as he began to dash out of the way again. She watched the pillow arch through the air between them, curling over as it began falling towards the spot that the hedgehog had just jumped from.

\tThen the pillow abruptly changed direction, following Sally's gaze as she relocated her target. Sonic barely had time to look puzzled as the pillow smacked into his face with more force than either of them were expecting. As it exploded into a cloud of feathers and fabric, the squirrel covered her mouth in surprise.

\t“Oh my gosh! Sonic!” she cried, running over to him, “I'm so sorry!”

\t“Ppfffftthh!” the hedgehog replied, spitting out feathers and opening one eye to look at her, “Whoa... Nice throw. 'You been trying out for shot-putt in the summer games or something, Sal?”

\tHelping to brush him down, the squirrel shook her head.

\t“No... I just threw it, and I was so sure it would miss too,” she responded, looking over Sonic's face to make sure he was okay, “It was like it had a life of it's own and just... flew at you!”

\tPicking the final feather from his quills, he looked between it and Sally slowly before shrugging.

\t“Well, the life of this bird ended in a crash landing,” Sonic concluded with a smile, “And I guess I'm cooking tonight. But definitely not something I have to pluck!”

\tSally laughed, hugging him tightly. He returned the embrace, kissing into her neck softly.

\t“You know, Sal...” he murmured, holding her against him, “It won't take a sonic-second for me to run to market. We could pass the time some other way, eh? Sal?”

\tThere was no response. Alarmed, Sonic withdrew, still holding the squirrel as her head lolled back limply, a tiny trickle of blood running down from her nose.

*****

\t“... Should be... Ah, I think she's waking up!”

\t“Oohh... Doctor?” Sally grumbled, opening her eyes and seeing Doctor Quack, Sonic, Antoine and Cream looking back at her, their expressions melting into relief.

\t“Easy, Princess,” the duck soothed, softly but insistently pushing her head back down onto the couch, “Sonic just ran you in here after you passed out. Do you remember anything?”

\tThe squirrel frowned, lifting a hand which was gently grasped by Sonic.

\t“I was just hugging Sonic, and I... I felt weird,” she answered slowly, looking around to find she was in Bunnie and Antoine's house with her friends, “I just, my brain felt cold.”

\t“And this was after you hit Sonic with the pillow?” the doctor queried.

\t“You hit Sonic with a pillow?” Antoine choked, his expression mixed between surprise and bemusement. The hedgehog scowled across at him as Sally nodded.

\t“And the nose bleed?” asked the doctor, trying to get all of the facts.

\t“Nose... bleed?” Sally repeated, bringing a hand to her face. That hand was lightly seized by Cream, the little doe's expression warm enough to melt the coldest of hearts.

\t“I'm sorry, Princess,” she apologised sincerely, “I cleaned it up whilst Mister Sonic and Doctor Quack were talking.”

\t“No, Cream. You did the right thing,” the duck smiled, ruffling the youngster's head-fur gently, “You'd make a good little nurse with care like that.”

\t“I would?” the rabbit beamed up at him, “I'd like that! Mommy has a nurse's uniform I could wear and everything!”

\tThere was an ackward silence as all but Cream exchanged glances. Fortunately that silence was broken by the creak of the bedroom door.

\t“Sally-girl?” came a voice from behind the couch, attracting the attention of the squirrel's onlookers.

\t“Bunnie?” queried Sonic in amazement.

\t“Mon cherie!” piped up Antoine, running around to the source of the voice. Sally tried to lift her head to see, but was gently restrained by Doctor Quack.

\t“Miss Bunnie!” Cream squealed, bouncing in place and squeezing Sally's hand before moving over to help.

\tBunnie shuffled out to join them, wrapped in her bedsheets. Her husband and Cream carefully supported her as she crossed the room to kneel beside the squirrel.

\t“Hey, Sally!” Bunnie smiled, kissing her friend on the forehead before settling back, “Y'all didn't have to come over here to see me. Y'know, if you weren't up to it.”

\t“Bunnie..!” the squirrel sniffled, tears forming in her eyes as she gently held the rabbit's gemstone hand in hers, “I'm so happy to see you again!”

\t“I'm less happy,” grunted Doctor Quack, putting on his sternest expression to meet Bunnie's questioning stare, “You should be in bed.”

\t“Pishaw, Doc!” grinned the rabbit playfully, “Ah'm well enough to come and see mah friend, 'specially after her beau brought her in here so dramatic-like. And how y'all doin' shugah-hog?”

\t“Heh... Stubtle was never my middle name,” Sonic blushed, leaning down to kiss Bunnie on the cheek, “I'm doing better for seeing you up and about.”

\t“Always the charmer...” the rabbit smiled, giving him a wink before looking back down at Sally, “So Ah heard Ah gave y'all a bit of a scare?”

\tShaking her head, the Princess squeezed Bunnie's hand.

\t“I'd have been more scared if you hadn't saved my life. Thank you, Bunnie,” she said, her tears fading away, “Are you okay?”

\tThe rabbit shrugged, leaning her head back against Antoine's shoulder as he knelt beside her.

\t“Well, 'sides from bein' sore in places where Ah didn't know Ah had places from bein' laid out for so long...” she concluded, “And for whatever decorations Naugus' magic gave me, Ah think Ah'm on the quick trail to recovery.”

\t“I think your arm and legs look lovely, Miss Bunnie.” Cream smiled, tenderly lifting a curl of hair away from the older rabbit's eyes. Bunnie smiled, lightly stroking the doe's cheek with her organic hand.

\t“Aww, thanks lil' shug. Ah'll admit, they're a step up from the old ones. Maybe we can find out if they're all sparkle and no substance when Ah'm up to it, eh Doc?”

\t“Maybe, when you're better,” Doctor Quack agreed, “But for now, I want both you and the Princess off your feet until morning. No arguments.”

\tThe two patients nodded, exchanging another tender kiss before parting ways. Bunnie was escorted back to her bedroom by Antoine and Cream, and Sonic carefully cradled Sally as he carried her back to their house. That left the doctor alone in the room – he sighed and leafed through the reams of notes and findings he'd made during the recent conversations. Ringing the final comment, he left to return to the clinic and to update Nicole.

\t'Both subjects need further observation,' the comment read, 'More research into their unusual experiences – Bunnie's limbs and Sally's brain. Something strange about their changes.'

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